Love this! A simple innocent trivia game (I assume this isnt a professional thing) blown completely out of proportion by competitiveness. Its just in that sweetspot where the tradeoff between effort to write tools vs the gain from using tools is in balance (it seems). I can totally see myself doing this.
Oh definitely not professional. I'm not sure the team that wins even gets money, but a trophy and bragging rights is worth a lot. It's a ton of fun and you can compete (mostly) online each year!
TriviaOps :-)